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NSTA Chapter and Associated Group Leaders: There is a better mousetrap to track members!
We are featuring a post from guest blogger, Kelly Price. Kelly is the GSTA Director for the 2012-13 year. She has been a member of the GSTA board f...
By Teshia Birts, CAE
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USA Science and Engineering Festival 2012
The USA Science and Engineering Festival had something for everyone this weekend—information, experiences, fun and challenges for scientists young a...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Every month, our colleague Ken Roy shares important information about safety in the science classrooms and laboratories. His columns appear in Science...
By Mary Bigelow
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Spring wildflowers: Introducing guest blogger Marie Faust Evitt
The Early Years blog will broaden its voice by having occasional guest bloggers. Marie Faust Evitt joins us today. She is the head teacher of a presch...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Found materials + engineering process = toy
We didn’t have enough wire so we re-used cardboard tubes, empty boxes, egg cartons, and plastic jar lids to create toys called “Galimotos” in th...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science of NHL hockey: force, impulse & collisions
What’s small and round, made of vulcanized rubber, and kept in the freezer before you play with it? That’s right—a grenade! Or at least that’s...
By admin
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My principal just asked me to be the science department chair for next year. I’d like to change the format of our professional development (PD) ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science of NHL hockey: Newton’s three laws of motion
Photo of Washington Capitals forward Keith Aucoin (#23) collision with Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nikolai Kulemin (#41) Is this your first look at th...
By admin
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Science of NHL hockey: kinematics
As we mentioned last time, NSTA and NBC Learn have teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch “Science of NHL Hockey,” an onli...
By admin
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Please attend, then tell me all about the NSTA STEM Forum & Expo in Atlantic City
I’ll be having a wonderful time at home with a sister visiting and celebrating a family birthday BUT, I do wish I could also go to the 1st Annual NS...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science of NHL hockey: mass, volume, and density
NSTA has teamed up once again with NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to bring you another exhilarating video series with connected l...
By admin